Flat Out News

April 10, 2024

CARS N' COFFEE

2nd Saturday Each Month

9:30 am

Next Event: Saturday April 13



This is a great way to meet and stay in touch with the PCA Members in your area of our Big Sky region.. If weather isn't good, feel free to drive any vehicle.

Cars N' Coffee is at 9:30 am on the 2nd Saturday of each month.

There may not be a "host", so it would be nice for someone to arrive a few minutes early to scope out seating.

NOTE: Change of venue for Helena: will now be at Montago Coffee (better parking). Details below.

NOTE: Correction for Bozeman. It's at the Daily in the Cannery District.

Kalispell

Panera Bread

2240 Highway 93 N., Kalispell, MT 59901

Trent Neumann 406-212-7625

Missoula

Panera Bread

2410 N Reserve St, Missoula, MT 59808

Michael Handelman 202-437-9076

Bozeman

The Daily (in the Cannery District)

NW Corner of Rouse and Oak

1203 N. Rouse Ave # 3A, Bozeman MT

Drew Laskowski 406-600-4078

Great Falls

Electric City Coffee

319 Central Ave, Great Falls, MT 59401

Jim Walsh 406-7991405

Helena

Montago Coffee

In former Independent Record Building

630 North Montana Ave., Helena, MT 59601

Steve Turkiewicz 406-439-0615

(Note: No Host for 4/13)

Saturday, April 27

Drive N' Dine

Missoula to Lochsa Lodge, ID

More Info?

Email Michael Handelman

Save the Dates

Events in Planning

May 18: Multiple cities New Member Meet & Greet

June 15: Polson Drive N' Dine

July 27: Lunch at Quinn's Hot Springs

Oct. 4-6: Glacier Area Scenic Weekend

If you would like to work on one of these

or have ideas for another event,

please email

Joe Grabowski, Activities Director

New Member Meet & Greet

All members are invited to help us welcome

New Members to the Big Sky Region

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Saturday May 18

Noon - 2 pm

Northwest MT

: Tamarac Brewery Lakeside

Missoula

Home of President Michael Handleman

Great Falls

Home of Dave Cooley

Helena

Steve Turkiewicz - Location TBD

Bozeman

Drew Laskowski - Location TBD

Big Sky Regioin

As of April 9, 2024

Total Members 176

Primary Members 87

Junior Members 5

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Mark Webber, Bozeman, 1999 911 Carrera 4

Derrick Feuerstein, Lakeside, 2019 911 GT3 RS

Bic Green, Bozeman, 2004 Boxster S Special Edition

Richard Olson, Great Falls, 1972 911T

Chris Steuer, Belgrade, 1985 911 Carrera

Rolf Sohlberg, Polson, 2020 718 Cayman GT4

Andrew Eckstrom, Whitefish, 2018 718 Cayman S

Brian Baldwin, Kalispell, 2018 Macan S

Chris & Darrah Rogers, Rollins, 2012 911 Turbo

Dave Cambra, Missoula, 1999 911 Carrera Cabriolet

Ken Fueudenberg, Missoula, 1964 356

Steve Reiman, Helena, 1986 911 Carrera

Adam Presson, Bozeman, 2024 911 Carrera T

Richard Alums, Helena, 2022 718 Cayman

Scott Lese, Philipsburg, 2024 911 GT3 Touring

Shawn Borgen, Columbia Falls, 2015 Macan Turho

John Houseman, Belgrade, 2006 911 Carrera

Rory O'Donnell, East Helena, 1980 911 SC Targa

Michael Michlig, Bigfork, 2022 911 Carrera S

Gary O'Donnell, Bozeman, 2023 911 Carrera GTS

John Ford, Seeley Lake, 2008 Cayman S

Brad Kincaid, Columbia Falls, 2013 911 Carrera S

President’s Corner                                                      

Spring 2024                 

“It’s not just the cars, it’s the people…” 

Here it is an early April day in Missoula, yesterday the temperatures got to 69 degrees and today we have light rain and the low 50s.

Definitely time to start thinking about our cars and what we will do with them this coming driving season. I and the other officers are busy trying to make plans for what events we can have that will be attractive to our members. The challenge is having events that are attractive to our very large (geographically) region.

So far most of the events will be around the northwest part of Montana along with a meet and greet for new members and old on the same day in several cities. Currently we have locations confirmed for Missoula and Great Falls and are working on ones in Bozeman and the Kalispel areas. We are hoping to have this in late May. If you are interested in hosting an event like this, please let us know.

Other events currently in the planning stage are a drive to Lochsa Lodge in Idaho from Missoula, a BBQ lunch on Flathead lake, a group dinner held in Lakeside, a lunch at Quinn's Hot Springs, two High Performance Driver Education weekend in Lewistown and a weekends tour around Glacier scheduled for early October (hopefully the weather gods will be kind to us this Fall). If anyone can suggest other events feel free to contact me or any of our officers Big Sky Team.

I strongly encourage everyone to attend one of our monthly cars & coffee, a great way to see some fabulous cars and meet people. Cars & coffee is held in several cities the second Saturday of every month at 9:30am.

In addition, if you have a favorite drive or activity you would like to share, please reach out to someone on the Big Sky Team. 

Recently Trent Neumann and I had the privilege of attending the Zone 14 president’s meeting in Calgary. Zone 14 is made up of six regions including our own, three in the US and three in Canada. It was a great meeting which allowed us to meet our neighbor regions and brainstorm on how we can continue to offer activities that our members will enjoy.

A couple of ideas that we came away with were garage tours and award banquets. We will also be exploring if this makes sense for our region. Garage tours are where members volunteer to open their garages (small and big) for tours and discussions on how they organized and used their individual garage.

At the Calgary meeting we also heard about some of the plans for 2025 which is PCA’s 70th anniversary along with Big Sky’s 50th anniversary. We are already planning a weekend based out of Great Falls (where BSK was founded) and will see if we can coordinate this with National’s event. We are of course looking for volunteers to help plan and organize our weekend celebration. Stay tuned for more information on this event.

Contact me or Jeanette Cheney if interested in helping in any way. 

Thank you and I hope to be able to meet at a future event or activity.



Michael Handelman, President Big Sky Region

Driver's Ed Lewistown MT

June 29-30 and Aug. 24-25, 2024

Single Day: $60

Two Days: $95

Registration will be posted on MotorSports.reg.

From Dave's Aug. 2023 Report:

 "Our 32nd summer of DE weekends is history.. Two days of clear skies, light winds, a dry track and temperatures in the eighties. Understanding that these events are open to anyone with a car that can pass tech, it was especially pleasing that eighteen out of the 36 cars were Porsches, most of them less than five years old. My two students drove a Cayenne and a 2023 Carrera, but I had the good fortune to drive several of the others. Midway through the first morning we had our first true emergency in three decades. .....

Read more. Visit the DE Page on our Big Sky PCA website.

If you don't find what you are looking for: Contact Dave Cooley by email



Region Officers

Thank you for "stepping up to the plate" in response to our request volunteers to serve the Region as officers and chairs.. Click link for Photos and Bios posted on the BSK Website

2024 Board of Directors

President: Michael Handleman, Missoula

Past President: Randy Cheney, Columbia Falls

Vice President: and Treasurer Trent Neumann, Kalispell

Secretary/Membership: Jeanette Cheney, Columbia Falls

Newsletter, Website & Social Media:

Julia Quigley, Somers

Becky Neumann, Kalispell

Drivers Ed & Safety: Dave Cooley, Great Falls

Activities Chair: Joe Grabowski, West Glacier

Northwest: Joe Grabowski

South (Bozeman/Billlings) Drew Laskowski, Bozeman

Central (Missoula, Helena, Great Falls) Looking for Volunteer

Zone 14 Rep Yvette Winslow, Edmonton, Alberta